708 THE FEUIT MANUAL. 



JEKUSALEM. Fruit, large ; long egg-shaped. Skin, dark purple, 

 covered with a dense blue bloom. Stalk, an inch long, thick and 

 hairy. Flesh, firm, sweet, briskly flavoured, and separating from the 

 stone. 



A dessert plum ; ripe in the middle of September. Shoots, smooth. 



JODOIGNE GREEN GAGE (Eeine Claude de Jodoigne ; Royal 

 de Vilvorde). Fruit, large, one inch and seven-eighths wide and two 

 inches and an eighth long ; round, inclining to oblate, marked on one 

 side with a shallow suture. Skin, thin, greenish at first, but becoming 

 greenish yellow as it ripens, and with a pale brownish red cheek, 

 strewed with green and yellowish dots on the side next the sun, the 

 whole covered with a thin bluish bloom. Stalk, over half an inch 

 long. Flesh, whitish yellow, firm, very juicy and tender, with a sugary 

 and very rich flavour. 



A large and handsome form of the old Green Gage, and possessing 

 all its merits ; ripe in the middle and end of September. Shoots, 

 smooth. 



JULY GREEN GAGE (Reine Claude de Bavay Hdiive). Fruit, 

 the size and shape of the Green Gage. Skin, thin, of a fine deep 

 yellow colour, flushed with bright crimson on the side next the sun, 

 and strewed with darker crimson dots, the whole covered with a 

 delicate white bloom. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, slightly 

 depressed. Flesh, deep yellow, very tender and juicy, sugary, and 

 richly flavoured, separating with difficulty from the stone. 



A first-rate and most delicious early plum, equal in all respects 

 to the Green Gage, and ripening in the end of July. Shoots, smooth. 



Keyser's Plum. See Hulings's Superb. 



KIRKE'S. Fruit, above medium size ; round, and marked with a 

 very faint suture. Skin, dark purple, with a few deep yellow dots, and 

 covered with a dense bright blue bloom, which is not easily rubbed off. 

 Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, inserted in a very deep depres- 

 sion. Flesh, greenish yellow, firm, juicy, separating freely from the 

 stone, and very richly flavoured. 



A delicious dessert plum ; ripe in the beginning and middle of Sep- 

 tember. The young shoots are smooth. The tree is hardy and 

 vigorous, and an abundant bearer, well suited either for a standard 

 or to be grown against a wall. 



It was first introduced by Joseph Kirke, a nurseryman, at Brompton, near 

 London, who told me he first saw it on a fruit-stall near the Royal Exchange, and 

 that he afterwards found the trees producing the fruit were in Norfolk, whence he 

 obtained grafts and propagated it. But its true origin was in the grounds of Mr. 

 Poupart, a market gardener at Brompton on the spot now occupied by the lower 

 end of Queen's Gate and where it sprung up as a sucker from a tree which had 

 been planted to screen an outbuilding. It was given to Mr. Kirke to be propagated, 

 and he sold it under the name it now bears. 



